Zoë Campbell

Zoë Campbell

Scientist, Gender

Zoë Campbell is an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in the intersection between gender and animal health. Before joining ILRI, she worked as a wildlife technician in her home state of Oregon, and later as an environmental extension officer in the Peace Corps in southern Tanzania. She is based in Nairobi, but fondly considers Tanzania to be a second home.

Zoë holds an interdisciplinary doctoral degree from Washington State University’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health. Through a unique sandwich program in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Arusha, Tanzania, she combined methods and theories from economics, social sciences, and global animal health to learn more about why people were or weren’t vaccinating their chickens for Newcastle disease.

Research activities at ILRI include supporting the gender component of the ECo-PPR project, aimed at increasing vaccination for PPR in six countries as part of the global eradication initiative, assessing the adoptability of bacteriophages by poultry farmers, testing gender-responsive approaches in a study of Rift Valley fever vaccination in Kenya, and most recently, developing study designs and frameworks to consider gender within the One Health initiative.

Selected publications:

Campbell, Z.A., Thumbi, S.M., Marsh, T.L., Quinlan, M.B., Shirima, G.M., Palmer, G.H., 2019. Why isn’t everyone using the thermotolerant vaccine? Preferences for Newcastle disease vaccines by chicken-owning households in Tanzania. PLoS One 14.

Otiang, E., Campbell, Z.A., Thumbi, S.M., Njagi, L.W., Nyaga, P.N., Palmer, G.H., 2022. Vaccination of household chickens results in a shift in young children’s diet and improves child growth. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 119, 1–12.

Campbell, Z., Coleman, P., Guest, A., Kushwaha, P., Ramuthivheli, T., Osebe, T., Perry, B., Salt, J., 2021. Prioritizing smallholder animal health needs in East Africa, West Africa, and South Asia using three approaches: Literature review, expert workshops, and practitioner surveys. Prev. Vet. Med. 189.

Namatovu, J., Campbell, Z., Ouma, E., 2021. The role of gender dimensions in the transmission and control of Rift Valley fever in Uganda. ILRI Project Brief. Nairobi, Kenya.

My Projects

Poultry

ACTIVE

Poultry losses and One Health (POLOH): Reducing losses and zoonotic risks along the Burkina Faso poultry value chain through a One Health approach

Colored drawing of chicks in a cardboard box with vaccines

ACTIVE

PRomoting and Enabling Vaccination Efficiently, Now and Tomorrow (PREVENT)

Women and men animal health service providers standing in an arid area near a flock of goats and sheep in Isiolo County, Kenya

ACTIVE

Scaling improved strategies for Rift Valley fever vaccination in livestock in eastern Africa

My Blog Posts

Isiolo Livestock Trade Facilitation (B2B) Forum (ILRI / Judy Kimani).

ILRI News

Promises and pitfalls of making livestock vaccination more accessible

ILRI News

Training researchers virtually when supplies can cross borders but people cannot

Laughter, the universal language

My Publications

Gender considerations in One Health: a framework for researchers

  • Galiè, Alessandra
  • McLeod, A.
  • Campbell, Zoë A.
  • Ngwili, Nicholas
  • Terfa, Zelalem G.
  • Thomas, Lian F.

Gender, livestock, and antimicrobial resistance through the eyes of veterinary pharmacists – A case study from Thái Nguyên Province, Vietnam

  • Campbell, Zoë A.
  • Thinh Nguyen-Thi
  • Terfa, Zelalem
  • Nguyen Thi Van An
  • Bui Van Quang
  • Vu Xuan Thai
  • Kawarazuka, Nozomi
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Small ruminant keepers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards peste des petits ruminants and its control in West Africa: Case studies from Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal

  • Ilboudo, Guy S.
  • Biguezoton, A.S.
  • Sidibé, C.A.K.
  • Lo, M.M.
  • Campbell, Zoë A.
  • Dione, Michel M.

Small ruminant keepers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards peste des petits ruminants and its control in West Africa: Case studies from Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal

  • Ilboudo, Guy S.
  • Biguezoton, A.S.
  • Sidibé, C.A.K.
  • Lo, M.M.
  • Campbell, Zoë A.
  • Dione, Michel M.
ILRI publication cover

Gender and community participation in livestock vaccination

  • Campbell, Zoë A.
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Using epi-zones to harmonize control of peste des petits ruminants (PPR)

  • Wieland, Barbara
  • Jones, B.
  • Kiara, Henry K.
  • Getahun, Yasin
  • Campbell, Zoë A.
  • Kotchofa, Pacem
  • Lule, Peter M.
  • Nkamwesiga, Joseph
  • Mdetele, D.
  • Ferrari, Mireille
  • Roesel, Kristina